A multi-FPGA high performance computing platform for network-centric applications

The current network technologies and market are pushing the envelope for high-performance computing power at the edge of the network. One such technology support for this computational power is the on-the-field reconfigurable technologies. In this paper we present an overview of a highly-parallel Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) system architecture called Super Reconfigurable Fabric Architecture (SuRFA) that combines fine-grain FPGA architecture with coarse-grain Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) parallel processing cells (SPEC). We have demonstrated a multi-FPGA based virtual SuRFA implementation for building a fabric architecture that can support vast number of network-centric applications.